Responding to Restaurant Reviews

Turn Review Responses Into a Scalable Brand Advantage

Guests expect timely, thoughtful responses when they leave reviews. But for growing restaurant brands, managing replies across hundreds of units, platforms, and operators can quickly spiral into inconsistency – or inaction.

Guest Response Enablement – part of Response Center – brings structure, speed, and brand consistency to the challenge of responding to restaurant reviews.

Give your team the templates, AI assist, and task visibility they need to close the loop with confidence.

The Problem: Responding to Restaurant Reviews at Scale

The Cost of Not Responding to Restaurant Reviews

Responding to reviews matters (89% of customers say they are more likely to choose businesses that do this). It impacts your reputation, SEO rankings, and guest sentiment. But for most restaurant brands, it’s a fragmented and reactive process:

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Some Units Reply Regularly; Others Don’t.
Inconsistent Tone, Quality, and Speed Across Responses
Burnout for GMs and Marketers Trying to Keep Up
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A Reactive Approach That Undermines Guest Experience

The Solution: Consistent Scalable Review Response for Restaurants

Guest Response Enablement Includes:

Reply with AI

Stay on brand, sound human and respond quickly across your system.

Quick Reply Templates

Empower your team with a guidance content library to equip them to respond to every review effectively.

The Solution: Review Response for Restaurants

Reply with AI

Reply with AI is available within the centralized inbox, allowing you to generate customized replies to reviews based on their content and star rating.

  • Instantly generate tailored responses.

  • Fine-tune tone and length (make replies shorter, longer, more professional, or more casual).

  • Eliminate grammatical errors common in rushed responses.

  • Edit each AI reply as an extra layer of quality control.

ROI of Responding to Reviews for Restaurants

What is the Tangible Dollar Value of Average Star Rating for Your Restaurant Brand?

The Solution: Review Response for Restaurants

Quick Reply Templates

Pre-load Response Center with approved templates – accessible from the Unified Inbox – to empower your operators and marketing teams to respond directly to reviewers in a consistent and effective way.

  • Scale one-to-one engagement: Empower your operators with templated responses to ensure they remain on brand and consistent.

  • Fast outreach: Generate automated responses to reviews that need immediate attention.

BBI Customer Perspective

“It’s very very clear that our top performing units for sales and growth are also our top performers for reviews – both in terms of quantity and quality of the feedback received.”

Jenna Law – Marketing Director, Keke’s Breakfast Cafe

Consistent Response to Reviews for Restaurants

Explore Response Center

Response Center
One-stop shop for reputation management.
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Unified Inbox
Respond to guests via all your review and social media channels from one place.
Guest Recovery
Win back dissatisfied guests quickly and effectively.
Task Management
Get right info and instructions in right hands to activate follow-up action fast.
Channel Integrations
Integrate direct with social media, review and email channels.

Guest Experience Management Platform for Restaurants

Response Center is a Key Pillar of a Bigger, Holistic Guest Experience Platform

Integrations

Connect with tools you already use to collect more and better feedback.

Survey Studio

Menu-level post-order guest survey feedback in one minute.

AI Sentiment Measurement

Surface and size difference-making strategy decisions fast.

Performance Intelligence

Fueling the AI Restaurant Command Center With Unrivaled Guest Experience Insights

Guest Intelligence fuels our AI Restaurant Command Center – Performance Intelligence – with key guest experience inputs that accelerate sales and traffic.

Know what’s working, what’s failing, and exactly what to do next.
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Average Star Rating and Guest Sentiment Example

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